EtherDrive SAN solutions use the open ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE)
lightweight network storage protocol. Simple. Easy to understand.
Easy to use. AoE uses Ethernet to transport ATA disk commands
without the burden of TCP/IP overhead, thereby enabling disk drives
to become AoE devices connected directly to an Ethernet network. An
AoE device can be a single physical disk or a logical device made up
of multiple disks. An EtherDrive SAN appliance is an AoE target
device.